On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 14:27, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se> wrote: > I have an installation of OpenSolaris b134, with lots of addons: SunRay > Software, mplayer, VirtualBox... almost anything I could find got installed. > Make no mistake: it is ALL useful to me and my users, so there isn't > anything that can be removed out-of-hand. > > But: We do want to move on! OI b148 is my target, right now. > > I have tried to upgrade from OSol b134 to OI b147 or b148 since OI became > available. I have tried everything and it's aunts, to NO avail.
you'd help us help you by telling us what "everything" consisted of, in detail :-) (and no, don't reply to me in person, I'm not even in front of a solaris box ATM :-() > Is there a way to install a separate OI b148 from scratch? Like installing > from the bootable DVD iso, on the same machine, w/o interfering with the > existing OSol b134 environment. > Is there a way to create an empty Boot Environment and install onto that? Or > can one do it in some other, involved way? the last time I heard about this it was "yes, you can do that onto a seperate disk" (ie no two Solaris partitions on one disk). I wouldn't even try doing that within the same root pool ... > In the last few months, I have received massive amounts of "advice" on > upgrading b134->b148, but none of the advice has been in any way useful. see above :-) HTH Michael -- regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen Michael Schuster _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
